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The Texas State Aquarium Wild Flight Show is pretty cool, be sure to check show times when you arrive so you don’t miss it. The aquarium serves as a bird rehabilitation center and takes in injured birds of prey to heal them and release back into the wild. The ones in the show are . . . → Read More: Texas State Aquarium – Wild Flight Show Faster than a speeding torpedo, more powerful than tug boat, able to surf a gnarly barrel in a single bound, its super turtle! There is far too much to see at Texas State Aqarium to confine to one post. These are the many types of sea turtles, land turtles, reptiles and amphibians they . . . → Read More: Texas State Aquarium – Reptiles and Amphibians
One of the star attractions in the Corpus Christi area is the Texas State Aqarium. Its quite impressive with a number of activities for kids, including many touch pools, dolphin and bird shows, and a water play park that was being worked on while we were there. You could easily spend the . . . → Read More: Texas State Aquarium If you are in the vicinity of the Texas State Aquarium and the USS Lexington an excellent place to grab a bite to eat is Pier 99 located in between them. We were turned onto it by a couple of city workers who kindly lead us back through the bridge construction zone to the . . . → Read More: Pier 99 While in the neighborhood we explored Mustang Island a bit to kill some time and have a look around. Much has changed since I was last here as a kid. The long stretches of wetlands, sand and dunes have all become colorful pastel beach houses and fancy hotels. All of these houses, . . . → Read More: Exploring Mustang Island After the proposal we relaxed around the campground and went for a little walk down one of the trails in Goose Island State park when we came to a Y in the trail and took one route that promptly petered out into nothing. We figured this trail had to eventually come out on a paved . . . → Read More: Mustang Island State Park – wild sea turtle encounter
One of the main motivations for this whole trip came down to this day. I’d had this ring custom made by Santa Fe Goldworks. They did an amazing job, it’s white gold with Mediterranean coral inlay. Although I had gone to David Griego first, I went to many jewelers . . . → Read More: Popping the Question While we were killing time waiting to see if we could go out on a fishing boat we had a lot of time to explore the town of Port Aransas. Not much has changed since I was a kid, they still had many of the same old shops and restaurants and all the charter . . . → Read More: Port Aransas We had really been looking forward to getting to go deep sea fishing from Port Aransas for months prior to this trip. This is something that my grandfather would take us on nearly every summer when I was younger and hearing me talk about it Cece wanted to try it too. We went to . . . → Read More: Bay Fishing We saw quite a lot of wildlife at Goose Island State Park. Everything from deer to snakes to a huge raccoon that tried to break into our motorcycle bag to get to some food. He was about the size of a mid sized dog, enormous! He was able to claw one zipper apart enough to . . . → Read More: Goose Island State Park Cardinals |
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